The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS A certain Sunday organ, hot by the Whigs far the'.: private political devotions, 'nes been exerting its bellows and barrels in perforrsing what we May term, in its own Sabbatic style, an entirely new Gloria pate-wry, wilicit,'its far as we knor, is rot the production of any known or ac credited eeeeposer. With an onthemic peal, fully mole startling than harmonious, it obtrudes upon us a strange Alieist ...del eulogy, whereof the burden is as follows : " A Treasury clerkship is now vacant, and the Examination of the three candidates is now going- on ; The three young gentlemen are the sons of Sir William Folkes, Sir Henry Calder, and the Rev. Mr. Law." 11u we know, is in many respects an arbitrary science, - the significancy of whose symbols are not always intelligible to the v - ulgar : but certainly, if the scoring we have just quoted have any purport at all, its only meaning can be, that now-a-days Whig appoint ments arc inflexibly reg,t lated upon the twofold principle of comparative tr:,l and approved teerit. On the understanding, then, that this righteous rule has at length been adopted by the Whig dispensers of patronage, we cheerfully award our humble meed of approbation ; and, far from objecting to fhe eligibility of these youthful probationers, we look with considerable interest both to the evidences of superiority they may respectively exhibit, and also to the strict impar tiality with which their pretensions shall be estimated and owned. No doubt the nomination of the younger Ellice as Private Secretary to Lord Durham must subject the Whigs to very considerable suspicion, inasmuch es the country has scarcely paid expense it has been saddled with in convs)irg him and his household to Canada than he is permitted. to resign, for the express purpose of visiting and superintenaing his patrimonial seignory of Beauharnois. No doubt the Whig pretence cf bestowing honours and offices exclusively upon tested merit, wholly irrespective of famii:y influence, v:ould seem to be sadly discredited by the caAow brood of Cowpers, Strangeways, Russells, Listers, 'Greys, Elliots, Ponsonbys, Howards, and Rices, who, by dint of their relationship ;to the unclean paternity of Downing street, are feathering their nests and gorging their maws in every department of the State. But we will not dwell upon this. To suppose that the beak-capacity of these fledglings has been duly tried and ascertained before actually allowing them to fasten upon the garbage of office, is P . ., difficult matter : and as the superiority of appetite:, claw, and pinion, is now the declared standard whereby contending claims are to be determined, we make no doubt that the cawing Folkeses, Laws, &c., are quite as eligible for preferment as any other candidates whom Whig partiality could select. But, considering that there are many diversities of Liberalism, an identification or dis cordance with which may materially affect the success of particular competitors, the arbitrament of rival importu nities must often be felt by th e Whigs to be a very perplex ing business. The proelaimed rule for settling such mat ters appears to be, that whenever the political influence of candidates is forend to be equal, a preference shall be given to the most liberal, To put a Conservative in the path of prornoteem is repugnant to the whole spirit of Whig professis m and poiicy. The Whigs declare that they hate the Conservatives. The advancement of any of their Conserva tive connexions, even to a subordinate post, is what they profess to abhor. When, therefore, a young gentleman belonging to a Conservative family is brought forward by the Whigs for an official appointment, we may be tho roughly assured that corruptien is at the bottom of it. In such a case, unless the Cuances extended to the favoured juvenile can be shosen to be wholly disconnected with fa tnily considerations, the Whigs manifestly sacrifice the in terests of the. country (according to their own views) for the sake of securing a private domestic benefit. Now, with4ze:.t stopping to ask Mr. Spring Rice, or his Sun da,: organ, what sort of a trial Master Stephen under went before his recent appointment to a Commissioner ship of Customs, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that young Mr. Calder, one of the aforesaid candidates for the vacant Treasury Clerkship, is not only Mr. Spring Rice's nephew, but is the son of a most respect able and consistent Conservative. Consistent, do we say ? Most certainly ; for though it is scarcely a year since the young nominee escaped from a private tutor to a public school, his education has been such, upon the whole, as perfectly warrants h i s f at h er i n accept i ng any suitable situation for him which may happen to be offered to Sir Henry, compatibly with the retention of his constitutional principles. Those principles the Hon. Ba ronet would be the last man on earth to sacrifice. But what shall we say of Mr. Spring Rice, whose political virtue thus succumbs to his nepotism ? What of the Government which connives at such family frailty ? What of the bellows and barrels that can bepuff it ? If, as they say, " blood is thicker than water," it appears at least to be not quite so pure. In a word, although the circumstance of an office being thrown open to Conservative competition is not in itself discreditable to the Whigs ; yet, when we see that, this seeming generosity to opponents, so foreign to their ex clusive spirit of party favouritism, is restricted entirely to their own family connexions, the act which might otherwise appear to be magnanimous is evidently nothing better than a mean and unprincipled job. But, after all, it is impossible to doubt that the announced " examination" which these youngsters are said to be undergoing is a mere colourable humbug of the most arrant Whig quality. Toinducea belief that public offices are now disposed of with the strictest regard to the fitness of the aspirants, wholly apart from private influence, is manifestly the sole purpose for which the said announcement has been made. People, however, who know the incurable jobbing tendencies of our present rulers, will not be so easily gulled. Come of this examina tion what may, not a particle of honest credit on account thereof can be given to its crafty practitioners : and with regard to Mr. Spring Rice's part in the business, the Right Hon. Jobber, who always affects to shun the very appear ance of evil, ought to recollect that, whether his Conserva tive nephew be successful or otherwise, it is unlikely that anything but shame can attach to the luckless uncle. If Mr. Calder should chance to be appointed, the public will know how to estimate the sort of talents that determine his success : if, on th e ot h er h an d , t h e Ri ce nom i nee s h ou ld fail, the presumption will be, that the tricky Chancellor has as usual paltered in a double sense, and kept the word of pramis e to his kinsman's ear, but broke it to his hopes.— Ti mes. AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 16.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange and his two eldest sons have arrived here to.dny, from the head -quarters at Tilburg D IABOLICAL ACT.—On Tuesda:y last, as a boy named William Peele, of Brewery-row, employed in Bur gess's Iron Foundery, Botch e ate, w as t ouc hi ng th e coc k o f a steam b o il er on the premis_e.rg a, John M'Laughlan, a working man, said th a t h e wou l d put him in the boiler. The boy, na turally enough, laughed, upon which the monster s e i ze d hi m and placed hi s head. in the boiling water, and, af t e r h o ldi ng i t there for a secood or two, droppedhoy in alt oget h er ! The poor fell ow contr i ve d to get out the out of th e bailer, but is so dreadfully scalded that his recovery i 3 considered h o p e l ess . He states th a t no ill w ill had previously existed b etween M•Lauglatan and Lim. Th e p erpetrator of this barbarous act is i t cirstoly.— Carlisle Patriot. About half -past 12 o'clock on Wednesday morning female, very respectably attired, came up to Mr. S. Tedder ' the gatekceprr on W a t er l oo -b r id ge, an d , shaking bands w i t h him, asked him to allow her to pees, and that she would pay him the penny ashen she returned. Having known her as a person of great respectability, he at once complied, and in a few minutes afterwards she was seen to throw herself over the ' , ridge into the water. It being high water, and no assistance at hand, her recovery was hopeless. Died, at Rempstone, on Monday, the 3d instant, of hydrophobia, Mr. William Orton, butcher and sheep dealer, of that villae . e. Same five or six weeks ago he bought a dog at Nottingham, and when taking it home in his cart it jilts-o w l up and sl;ehtly serateled his face; but the wound having quickly heaied, though the animal died, he thought no swore abont it until the S Awalay following, when, being at Bunny-park on bly;iness, he drank a glass of ale, which his stomach quickly- ej eeed, azed was then seized by dizziness, tightness a'ieut the throat, and other alarming symptoms, which grew worse aed worse, until he expired in great agony. Dcr.T Reporter. A day or two ago as one of the inspectors of weights and measures in this riding, was paying an unexpected visit amongst a number Of shopkeepers, accompanied by a deputy constable of the cross eyed race, they fell up ,n one who hap ren,d to be rather light in his dealing, and who, thinking all eyes were off him, with the dexterity of a first-rate conjuror, poppe..l a few of thesntail 'weights into his coat pocket; but the deputy happened to be looking at him all the while, and in a tone aecordmg with his office, ordered Mr. S!eert to t ike the weigh:s out of his pocket. lie did so, and, on being brought berre the ililgi-trans, Was fined in the mitigated penalty of it —Letd3 .Thtell:gencer: On Aionday morning, about 2 o'clock, the out offims beloreeiug to Colonel C on y ers, C n pthall , Essex , and uhic . ll are situate a short dis'alce from the mansion of that eel-Al-me 1, %Tore d:sc,.verefl to he on fire; and though ever y t t o . o. et ed d he : ,If,ritel wad given by the inhabitants 5 601)ot:rho, nr"PerlY to the amount of nearly 2.000/. be arrested. The tire a' as coesurned before itsuppos.ed to have er n the flames could d in the stables or granary adjoin_;inet7 three varn.ble huntrrs, ing, in the firmer of whe , wc . rc the latter the preduce of which v:ere burnt to death, and all of which was 14 acres of haeley and 10 tons of m oat , real , consumed. The flial , s then extended an'l thence reached • to the fowl house, and teatre) ed some thousands of its occupants, The cause of the the cow-house, which it nearly destroys;. fire remains a mystery.. While an English family, residing at Boulogne, were a few dais a s- go at breakfaq, one of the party, as the Almiteur Pari.sie't status, on breaking 2n e gg, found w ithin it a b1,,c1; wUcli was conee:ved to be the germ of a chicken. Another egg was brought, in which was di!tinctly discovered a horso.h;i r The fir's! egg was then earef.iliy ex,nuined, and the black substance within it was ascertained to be a ball of ho•-se-h,,ir most curi-;usly interwoven. Both the egs , l ,l 44 ve been d, , poiitei in th e B ou l ogne Allsemn ; and it pr ; v: f s . c t, . he li , n which laid them had been shut up in a ( g steiafriNo t aaa a lup and swalllwed some of the bairs 1•04 1-: .1 ;: . • . t . / C.eSsa", - - •*;•1" -- 0 GP I v". 4 /%7';' t'C'..t.`•k, • • - HE NEW FAITH% (From 0.1 6..';';:ierset County Gazette.) The eatrwqrqinary view of this portentous feAture in the re lqiiotit history of cur times, a hick we published a few weeks ago, has excited some interest among our readers, many of whom were surpris . ed to learn that in the middle of the nine. tt crab century, when freedom of thought and inquiry has be: come almost an established truth, there has arisen a sect, distinguished for ability and growing hourly in nitmbers, maintaining the worst theories of the dark ages, and preaching unmitigated Popery, not, as it now exists, in its mild and modified form, but as it was, centuries ago, when it ruled in undisputed supremacy the Christian world. Nor Was the sur. prise less to learn that this sect had ',rung from the bosom of the Church of England, and that Oxford claim e d th e honour of its birth-td wee. The retnar t ableletter of the Rev. H. E. Head to the Bialva; of Exeter, published in our last page—a letter which eloquently and powerfully rebukes the attempt made by that Bishop (a recent convert) to spread this new heresy through out his diocese, has directed public Ettention to the subject, and, therefore, we now proceed a ith our brief notice of it. Three clergymen, named severally Pusey, Newman, and Keble, have headed a school of Theologians, who have revived at Oxford the very doctrines of Old Popery, exploded even by the. Roman Catholics of bur day. They support their tenets s ith very remarkable talent, and with a z-al to which they owe mach or their success. They publish their senti ments in a work, emanating from the Oxford Press, called netts for the Times, a book abounding in eloquence' and learning, and which has been extensively read by the higher classes of the community. Besides this, many isolated publi cations promulgate their doctrines. Mr. Newman's "History of the Arians," and Mr. Keble's Visitation Sermon, entitled " Primitive Tradition recognized in Holy Scripture," are authorities among the new sect. Their doctrines are almost exactly similar to those of the Church of Rome in their ancient rigour. They maintain Apostolical Succession, which means that the Bishops do not receive their power from the State, but that it is directly handed down to them from the Apostles. Hence they infer that the Church is superior to, and whol'y independent of, the State. Dr. Hook, in a sermon preached before the Queen, of which so much has been said, boldly asserted that— " Were all connexion between Church and State at this very moment to cease, the Church would remain precisely as she now is—that is to say, our Bishops, though deprived of temporal rank, would still exercise all those spiritual 'functions which, conferred by higher than human authority, no human authority can take away ; still, to the vacant sees they would consecrate new Bishops, still ordain the Clergy, still confirm the baptized, still govern the Church." They contend that the Church is the sole depository of Divine Truth, which lies not merely in the Bible, but in tradi tion. That the Church, and not the Bible, should be the guide in matters of faith, for the interpretation put upon the Scriptures by the Bishops, who are divinely inspired successors of the Apostles, must necessarily be the correct one, and, therefore, it is wrong to put any other construction or to in quire into the matter at all. They object to the indiscrimi nate reading of the Bible, they deny that it is the guide of the laity, contending that it should be restricted to the Clergy only. In short, assimilating themselves to the doctrines of Popery, as it was, they virtually prohibit the reading of the Bible by the people, pronounce the Church infallible, and de. Clare that through it only can Divine Truth be attained. That we do not exaggerate will be seen by the following extract from one of the publications of Mr. Newman, a high authority : " The sacred volume," says Mr. Newman, " was never in tended, and was not adapted to teach us our creed. From the very first the rule has been, as a matter of fact, for the Church to teach the truth, and then appeal to the Scripture in vindi cation of its own teachings. And, from the first, it has been the error of heretics to neglect the information provided for them, and to attempt of themselves a work to which they are unequal—the eliciting a systematic doctrine from the scat tered notices of the truth which Scripture contains. The insufficiency of the mere private study of Holy Scripture for arriving at the entire truth which it really contains, is shown by the fact, that creeds and teachers have ever been divinely provided, and by the discordance of opinions which exist, whenever those aids are laid aside, as well as by the very structure of the Bible itself. And if this be so, it follows that when inquirers and neophytes use the inspired writings for the purposes of morals, and for instruction in the rudi ments of the faith, they still might need the teaching of the Church," &c. Mr. Keble in his " Christian Year" publishes the follow. ing verses, which, though very beautiful, breathe the spirit of Catholicism rather than of Protestantism : " Ave Maria 1 Mother blest, To whom, caressing and caress'd, Clings the eternal child ; Favour'd beyond archangel's dream, When first on thee, with tenderest gleam, Thy new-born Saviour smiled. " Ave Maria 1 Thou whose name All but adoring love may claim, Yet may we reach thy shrine; For he, thy Son and Saviour, vows To crown all lowly lofty brows With love and joy like thine." And Dr. Pusey, their acknowledged leader, maintains the efficacy of " prayers for the dead," identical with " masses," and energetically avows the doctrines of " passive obedience" and " divine right," which were believed to be exploded long ago. _ _ _ — We state these remarkable facts without passing any opi nion as to the truth or error of the doctrines. With that we have nothing to do in this place. Our duty is only to record them as striking features in the history of passing events. We hope we have no prejudices against any sect. But when we see a body of men adopting, whether rightly or wrongly, the principal doctrines of the Roman Catholics, and at the same moment seeking to keep the Roman Catholics in bondage, denying to them political rights and social pri vileges, we cannot suppress indignation at the inconsistency, nor avoid a suspicion that temporal power and profit are their inducements to the continued ill-treatment of a body of men with whose tenets they so nearly agree, that if ad mitted to equality with them, their own importance would be lost among the multitude of the faithful who have stool!' the test of persecution and wavered not. It is, however, strange but true, that the bitterest foes of Roman Catholic rights are the very sect that is promulgat ing Roman Catholic doctrines. We understand that our Member, Mr. Acland, is an enthusiastic disciple of this new school of Protestant Popery. It must be evident, at a glance, that the most momentous consequences must result from the spread of this new faith. The first and most important in its social and political aspect will be the total rupture in the Unity of the Church of Eng land. Already there are indications of a schism which has. proceeded to an extent little supposed by the public. Mr. Head's stringent letter is a direct declaration of defiance be tween the hostile parties, which must be followed by an open war. In every town, in every company, at all public meet ings, and in every church, we see the same proofs of a sepa ration, which has been long secretly in progress, but which is now openly avowed, between the Apostolicals or Popish sec tion of the Church, and the Evangelicals or Calvinistic section. These two sects are as opposed in creed, in practice, in doctrine, as any Dissenting sects. It is contrary to the na ture of things that they can continue united, even for the sake of the temporalities which both share. The breach is made, and we believe that nothing now will heal it. It will grow wider every day. But if the Church be thus divided against herself, can she possibly stand amidst the opposition with which she is assailed from without ? To us, who anxiously desire for her a long and useful existence, this is the painful, the alarming reflection suggested by the schism that has sprung up within her bosom. And what will be the recombinations of religious party to it will give rise? Ere long the rival sects within will struegle for supremacy. In this struggle they will seek help from those without the pale, and each will be content to share the possessions and the power with new allies, rather than re sign the whole to their opponents. Thus it is probable that every sect will shortly feel the consequences of the conflict. The Apostolicals will draw to themselves all those in whom imagination prevails over reason, the weak and wavering, who are glad to escape from the trouble and anxiety of seeking truth, by embracing a creed teaching that they ought not to think but to believe implicitly whatever their Church teaches. In this party will be found the largest section of the Aris tocracy, partly because the doctrines are favourable to their own indolence, but chiefly because, by prostrating the prin ciple o f f ree d om of tieought, they tend to the maintenance of eristocratic exclusive privileges. Oe the other hand, the Evangelicals will lee joined by the ehole body of Protestant Dissenters, not merely from as6mi lat ion of creed, but because they agree in the principle of free dom of thought, and reject all tradition and authority, resting their faith solely, upon the Bible. Such are the parties about to appear prominently upon the which is right, w l.i c h wrong; we have to stage Of history. It i s 110 part o f our province to only with inquire withthe fact of their existence, to state their doctrines and to pourtrav th •ir probable tffects upon the d-stinies of our country. ft has been a great fault in all political discussion that the influ ence of religion upon a nation has been left too much out of view. Public writers have seemed afraid to touch upon it, lest it liould drag them into polemical discussion, which is cer tainly without their province. But it, is their duty to deal with it as an existing fact, and one which cannot be left out of the Recount without making their speculations worthless. As sich, and as such only, do we now, anti shall we hereafter, deal eith it. Bell's L l / 4 in London of Sunday, September 23d, will contain the most correct particulars of the Doncaster Races, with a portrait of the wiener of the St. Leger. The publication of the country edition of Belts Life in Londoi will in future commence on Saturday neon, at twelve o'clock, by which arrangement the papers can be forwarded by the two o'clock trains, and delivered in Birmingham the same evening. Bell's Life in London cf Sunday l.st, September 16, wi:h the engraving of the splendid Doncaster Cup, may rt be had at the office, No. 170, Strand. The price of Bell's Life in London is only Fiv,.pence, and is now the largest folio Ilurnal printed in London. LONGEVITY.—On .reference to the Relieving Officer's books for the parish of St. Clear's, Carmarthenshire, lately. it was found that there arc Low residing in that parish s;x old men receiving parochial relief, whose united ages amount o r u n andt to to and ten old wom en , w h ose united ages year, ()idea man has now entered on hi s 0 3 d man on her 87th. Th e i r i nte l lects are : 7. 805. Yea oldest woman sound and memory go and in the m s s o oit o omrteyighhebosuairdhooofd severalnearly the old whole. Mare are also d t of a similar age.—C am b r i an . people, who are not paupers, TEIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1838. PRICES OF CANALS ) DOCK STOCKS, SSETRANIn COMPANIES,Scc. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 18 linnber Dividend Price "I- per CANAI S. per Paid. Share 8h tres. Annurn. 1 , 7 ;15 9 p'el eeht. .kst-tor: and Cldliatn....Averagr 97/. 18s. sh. 135 1.182 • 41. 1. 1.2„ ,, ,0 ...,,,,. i i 3 :..Lii i t t ;y 3 . s i: te t k -1:-Zouch .. ....... Averag e Ilf;.sh. 65 1001. sh• 5 1 , 0 °5 51. Br:el:flock and Abergavenny 150.. sr. 100 VA) 1 , .1t35h .91 68. Birminghatn, 1-16th share 8 1 1. & 71/. 220 1 4 1 00 ... i . 1.. Ditt o 3 - rO.l Li Terpool Junct...l.ll sh. 100 pd 241 630 V. Bridgewater and Taunton ....MO/. sh. ail pd 64 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater... ............ 10 0 /. 50 • 103 560 481. Clventry .00/.sh. 745 4.515 ... Ca)) . lon 2,060 i 4:. 0., D.ldley COO 14 , . Derby 2. 1 . 0 00 4 per cent. _)anise and Mayne 4ll. 13s. 4cl .pd 30 3,5751 31. Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 77 231 46'. Erewash 1,297 2 4 /. Flrth and Clyde 1,600 12/, Grand Junction ............................ ,1' 11.,h. 199 j 2,8491 U. Grand Union 4. .... c . . r . a . .g. .................................................. 7 5 1 2 : 1 ( 0 ) 0 1661.5 h zr 11.500 Grand Surrey 0,000/. 41. per cent. Dlt)o (optional) Loan ................... 1 0 0/. -13 3 196 Grand ‘flestern .................. 1001. sh. all p 630 131 . 123 . 9 d • GLonorganshire, Average cost 172/. 135. Id. 2.9 E 749 101. Grantham ................................... 15 01 . 5 h. 20 3 6,238 21. os. Huddersfield . Average 57/. (5 5 .6 d. si,. 37 100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10 c.'ial 11. ss. Kennet snd Avon, Average 39/.lBs. 10:4. all. 251 2,8171 241. Leeds and Liverpool ..................... lON. sh. 670 5151 131. Leicester .................................... 1101. sh. 220 1 , q97 6/. os. Leicester anal Northampton... Aver. VIZ. ' O6 . 91 2.400 10/. :Monmouthshire ..- ....................... 100/.sh. 20 , 150 10/. Melton Mowbray ........................... 1001. eh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell ........................ 100/. sh• 560 3.00 11. 10s. 'Macclesfield 1001. sh. a 00/.shll pd. . 325 52 24'7 171. loath 1 2,400 St. Peak Forest ...... ...... Avai.ge about VV. sh. 104 1,418 itt. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. 8. Bd. sh. 10 0 1, 5,669 61. per cent. rzochdele Average 51. sh. li,i 500 81. Shrepshire .................................... 1251. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal ... ........................... 1501. sh. 1511 3,600/. 41 ps-r cent Ditto I ,ock Fund Stock ............ 12/. 10s. sh. 111 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester ................ 110/. *h. 710' 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 2 , 30 300 91. Stourbridge ..... ._,...- ~... 145/. sh. 330 3,647 V. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 95. tsd. sh. 250 sh. 42 533 15/. Swansea 1001. 3,712 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 1001 351. sh. 35 2,6•10i5n. , •21. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share . sWI 4.149 Thames ~n, l Medway...Aver. 191.55.11 d. sh. 2 1 000sh.1 161. W ar wick and Birmingham lool.sh 281 i,ouoish. j 2:80 15, Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. ten 6,000 4/.os. Worcest .r and Birmingham...A v.78/.81. sh. 731 5,000 255. Wilts an.a Berks .. Average 671. 10s: Sd. sh. 1 800 31. 'lO Arley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 ••••... Wisheach 90a 1,. Wey and Arun 1101. sh. 221 DO('KS. 2,600/k 1,06515 h } 3p. e Commercial East and West India Stock 3,2:;3,310:/. 5.55. p.ct. London Stock 'OOl. sh Ditto iionds '2,209 2!. 19s. Bristol 63,324/. 54 per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bonds 20",.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tur 10 years 1.500 Deptford Pier ........... .. ........ 201. sh. 201. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 Ps. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old .....• C o n `. 631.2 s Bd. sh. 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Ne w, of 71 r . 5O/. sh. 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6Ol. pd 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,915 17s Vauxha11........ ....... Avlrage 701. 10s. 3d. sh ASSURANCE COSIPANIES. , 0,000 {5 per cent./ 2,000 31103 Albion .5001. sh. 501. pd Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 101/. pd / and 15s. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, M arine 100/. sh. 51. pd 50/. sh. 51. pd 24,000 11 per sh. Atla. 1,200 ish. 5/. Birmingham t ire 2501. sh. 551. pd 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire . 250!. sh. 501. pd 12,1100 6/. per cent. Britis h Commercial 50/. . b. 51. pd 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi :al,Sic. Life, IC(ll.sh. 2110 s pd 4,000 21 tes County 1001. sh. 10!. pd 20,000 ss. Eagle 5Ol. sh. Si. pd 0 ,, I's per cent./ Economic Lite lOOOl. sh. 2501. p d `''' /and 3Ol bs. 2,271 225. per cent. European Li .o ' , O/. sh. all pd 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 21. pd 1,000,00e1. 71. per et Globe Stock 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 10,000 6s. 6d. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 2,400 51. 7s. 6d. Imperial Hire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 13,4-59 4/. percent. Indemnity Marine 1001. 'h. 81. pd ~ 020 3/ 104 Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd - 3/. Ditto Life 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd a (561 Ins. London, Fire 251. sh. 121. 1(15. pi 3,904 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. la 10s. pd 1,0( . 0,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life. 1001. sh. 30,0 0 :',l. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 21. pd 511,000 4!. per cent. Protector Fire "0!. sh. 2/. pd 2,500 I/. Provident Lite ....... ........... 100/. sh - . 101. pd 100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 1/, pd 039,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stork... 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 51. pd 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life ...... IOU ch. 5/. pd JOINT SI OCK BANKS '25,000 I per cent. Agric andCumm. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 5.000 Australa.ia 4O/. sh. 401. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Biiiningham 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 1.1,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 6 1 ,000 5 percent. London and Westminster ...1001 sh. 20/. pd 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 101. pd .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOO/. sh. SO/. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 100,000 '7l per seat. Manchester and Liverpool/ 501.0. 151 pd Distri^t 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100!. sh. 25/ pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 100/. sh. 251. pd T0,,00 National Bank of Ireland 5O/.lh. 1711. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 351. pd 10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10!. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 11 Oa Od Bath 2Ol. sh. ICI. pd 5,000 British .......... ....... ..... 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 5,000 1 51 .Z e 1L e . 1 21 Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pa 929 51 lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. t,250 210 s Bristol 20t. sh. 1,500 31 10s Brighton " 20/. sh. 750 31 10, Ditto, New 201. sh. 18/. pd 2,471 4i per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 4,000 5/. Continental Consolidated 1,000 101. City 01 London .................100!. sh. all pd 1,000 • 61. Ditto, New 1,000 4/.los. Equitable 5O/. pd 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 800 51. per cent. Isle (A - Mallet 251. sh. '2Ol. pd 2,350 61. per cent. Independent 9O/. sh. all pd 9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Ratclifr 100/ sh. 80/. pd 4,0 , 10 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 5,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 461. pd 240 54 per cent. Warwick 501. sh. . 400 5/. per cent Wakefield 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,001 12s. Ditto New .... 5(1. sh. 10/. pd 860 Yarmouth 201. sh. 181. pd WATER. WORKS. 1,800 9s. Blrmingham 251. sh. 251. pd 1,434 6/. East London lOO/. sh. 5,500 21 10s (rind Junction ....Average 41/ 135. 4d. s h. h. 2,000 2!. Kent 100/. 220/. sh. 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 1,500 21 lOs New River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 1/ Iss Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 1,000 4 per cent. South London Ka sh. 8,294 4!. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 125. 9d. sh. 1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 6,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby IRON RAILWAYS. d 9,530 Birmingham and Gloucester 15, 0 00 Bristol and Exeter 100/ sh. 15 pd 1 660 . 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. 5h.1121/. 40/. p 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001. pd 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. Si. pd 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. eh. 711. 1. 1 Grand Junction 1001. sh. us!. pd Great Notth of England ................ 19/ . p d 5,000 Great Western 1 . 00/. sh. 65/. pd 2,000 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 156 lid 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 10 01 . sh. 5/. pd 2,100 3/. per cent. Leeds and Selby... ..... . ........... .... ..... 100 sh. 1,500 1/.55. Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh• all pd 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-la Lsh. 1001. P' 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. Pd 36,000 ..... ... London and Bright en Si)!.sh. 11L pd 12,000 London and Blackwell 501. sh. Si. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2Ol. sit. 201. pd 25,000 London and Birmingham -lOW. sh. 904 p d Ditto Quarter Shares .....................5/. pd 20,100 London and Southampton ....501. s h. 501. pd Ditto ditto New 11,000 London and Croydon Trunk 201 sh. 2 0 /. pd 6, , 00 '1 10s. Pd Ditto New Scrip 12,0,0 London Grand Junction 501. sh. 5/. pd 13,000 Manchester and Leeds ......1001. sh. 301. pd 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh. 10/. pd North Midland 1001. sh. 45/. pd Northern and Eastern 100 1 . sh. 15!. Pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3CI. pd 28,000 ...... South Eastern and Dover 9l. pd 1,000 14/.per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 2,0P0 ......... Thames Haven 5Ol. sh 21. 10s. pd 1,404 6,001 Westminster and Greenwich 5 0 /. sh. I/. p d York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121. pd 113 107 103 1001 11 14# 61 141 1071 21 Ss Od :7. Oci MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. sh. 31/. pd 4,000 IL ss. Alien 151. sh. 121. 10s pd 150/. sh all pd 1 2 7 00 ... 3 . , .... . A Bo nl zi l nt o too :l s e u x b i s ca er n i , pt i i s o s n . Si. pm 100 L sh. all pa , pd 1(1,000 6 11. lOs r• B i r a a c z a i t ig as n 174 ,.. c i a 55 0.. . , 51 6, p fte . d 3. 25 51... h h : 221 pd I 1 ~,(10 Ditto St. John Del Rey 9 01. .sh. 14/. ,pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd 10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 101. pd 20,000 British Iron ..... ....... ...... 5Ol. eh. 50/ pd 6,000 .... ..... British Copper 5l. sh. W. pi] Cata Branca..., 611. $ d Candonga 7 l ll pd 11,000 11 Copiapo 20/. sh, 13/. pd 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 1,1150 31. English 2.1,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 171. pd 8,155 ««..... Mexican Company 1001. sh. 55i/. pd 3,000 P l u te n i a t i l t e e r d l) dell Mexican, Monte,Cexotiicon C onsols . s n:e 2 g Unregis te red e i r e .. d .. 1 . 4 1 - 0 1 1 . 1 . .. ......... ... 81 . : . 1 . . 1 ...... 11,500 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd Dit...i, Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cark 10/ sh. 50/. pd LITERARY 1 NS'IIT U TION S. I,olio London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,501 Lorid-n University IM/. sh. all pd 700 It usst4l • 'yes. sh. 15s. Austral i an lC.ingNil6(:(o7lEl e A lg' g eL r A i e N u lEtt(i)ratil!..lo(pLsyh. .2 1 7 2 1 3 ;1 7 1 1 1 10,010 6,10%. 41. per cent. British American Land Com Lon .............. ......... ............... ...... caul.c'. t CI t i y Canada poe Company r n ,C l s a , n per c art ........... .... •.. ............ 2f 1 0 0 ), ,f ( W ,I l x ;) (J u l per r r ii. os. General Steam Navigation l5l. sh. 14/. pd la per cent. fluclson's Bay Stock .................. 2,000 IL London Coin. Sale Rooms .............. Av. 75/. sh. 11,000 Caoutchouc Company `2.51. sh. 121 /.pd 55'10,00L . pd New Brunswick Lantl Comps's) , ,O /. p d 2,754 . 51. per c ..nt. Reversismary Interest 50c...1001. at). mot I A .2 iii; 51, leer cent. Ditto New 10 , ./. sh. 70/. pd , 4,000 .. 1 homes runnel 50/. sh. all 1.4 10,000 0 1 , Van Die ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. pd P,OOO ... ..... 20,CnN ) 2.251 bk 24 211 221 98 77 1004 511 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES AUG. 25. 1838. BANKS. 1.50C,f10• , 1. el. p. ct. Ear' of Scotland 83/. fls 8.1. sh. all pd 19x. 2,000,0 al. 54 p. ct. Rc r of Scotland IGO/. sh. all pd p 2/. 510,0 4-1. 6p. rt. Br.rish Linen Company 1001. sh. :.11 p.l 240' 3 000,0011. 6/. p. ct. Commercial .5001. :h. 1101. pd 177/. 5 savior.. n , It. '.., tional lOOl. sh. 101. pd 161. .00 , ,0.01. el p. ct. GlaAgovr Union 250/. sh. 501. pd 86/. 1,000,040/. 4 p. ct. Western NC of ScoCOMPANIES. tland 2001. sh 401. pd SW . INS .25 , ..00 0 5h 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. ch. 11. pd 3c, ',50 rl! ..). ct. Hercules lO O/. sh. 101. pd 131 15' pY,OOO 'l3. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland -JO/. sh. ail pd 9! Os, 50.11:/ 0 6p. ct. North Iltitish 2OOl. sh. 10/. pd 18L WO 5 p ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10!. pd 19/ Os 54asi 1 , p. ct. Edinburgh Lite 1001. ski' lot. 1.1 14/10s 1011,110 U 33 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd ilia MISCELLANEOUS Edits. and Was. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 10/. Ditto Allocated 901. th. all pd 501 5,4(k) 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Watcr....25/. sh. all pd .59/ Carron Iron t'.otn pan y 250/. sh. all pd 441. t,ooosh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Founder y 50/. sh 4. 4 41. pd 52/, 'VICO 3 per cent. Edinburgh k Leith Glass VOL sh. 16/. pd Si 4,:'.00 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Ga. - 23!. sh. all pd COl. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas "51. sh. all pc! 1344 750 ` . 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20 1. sh. all pd .01/. '...1( 0 ' 1000 spar cent. Equitable Loan C0any...15/. sh. pa W. 116 4,810 ........ CELEb4IAL titIEI'4OMEXA: The appearance of the heavens on Saturday night ilst dicated a renewal of tho.,:e celestial appearances which were so frequently seen in the months of October and November, 1837. On Sunday evening a cool elastic flow of air from the north-west was the forerunner of a stream of illuminated va. pour shooting upwards towards the zenith, and proceeding from a quarter of a circle from the horizon. Nearly due north arose one steady spire of luminous matter, inclining in an an gle of about forty five degrees. This did not vary much, but all around, chiefly to the west of it, were ripples of waving light that flickered in the streaks within a very short distance of the earth, so near that the lofty shafts of the steam-mills in this city seemed to be in the midst of some of the flakes of extremely attenuated light. One would almost suppose that philosophers could not fail to trace the cause of these singular appearances when so adjacent to the earth. There was not a cloud nor an opaque streak in the atmos phere for a considerable period ; but at ten o'clock a thick b-lt of dark cloud circumscribed the west a few degrees above the horizontal line, and from this seemed to be sent forth the strongest waves of light. The day had been somewhat warm and close—nightfall and these phenomena produced a rapid change of temperature, and it might admit of the conjecture that the earth aas yielding some of its surplus heat to the at mosphere. —Lincoln Gazette. At half-past seven last Sunday evening, there was observed at St. Alban's, the sky being clear and starlight, a bright band of light, extending from about twenty degrees from the wes tern horizon to about forty degrees from the eastern horizon. When this appearance was first noticed (which must have been within a few minutes after it became visible) the band of light was exactly vertical ; it then moved very slowly about 35 degrees towards the south, where it remained stationary till, in about a quarter of an hour, it had gradually disap peared. The band was nearly in a straight line, from which it deviated a little, when it moved, and as wide as the distance between two of the well-known stars in the Great Bear. The northern edge was clearly defined and very bright. The southern edge was shaded off. At the same time a thin column of light shot up about 20 deg. above the eastern horizon, in a line with the above mentioned band of light. Shortly after their disappearance the aurora borealis became ♦ery bright, and the coruscations later in the evening were singularly bril liant. The bind of light and the aurora evidently originated from the same cause. A remarkable instance of parhelion occurred on the 15th instant, at 5 P. m. , and lasted about twenty minutes. It was observed at Th waite, Suffolk, and appeared more than unusually well defined ; seldom, indeed, has there been so clearly-de fined a " mock sun," as frequently termed. It was depicted in a hazy cirro-stratus cloud, as usual, exhibiting the pris matic colours very strongly, but at one time was so bright as to dazzle the eye almost as much as the true sun, which was then bright. The electrical indications, as well as pluvial signs, were afterwards observed to increase, and a sultry and clouded evening was succeeded by a rainy morning. On the 30th of July a similar instance was noticed early in the morn ing, in the vicinity of Sudbury. In all cases of these pheno mena moisture abounds in the clouds to a considerable degree wherein the scene is depicted.—Bury Herald. Last night ( Friday) the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen to great advantage. They commenced soon after nightfall, and continued remarkably brilliant for some hours. Overhead the sky was clear and studded with stars ; and the lights were confined almost entirely to the northern region. A long misty cloud, but without any distinct outline, bounded the horizon, and from thence the coruscations shot vertically, in sharp-pointed spears, or flashed up in broad lambent flames as high as the zenith. We have rarely seen these boreal lights so variable, rapid, and fantastic in their motions. They were all of a white or silvery colour, without any admixture of that reddish tint by which they are some times marked.—Scotsman (Edinburgh). [These appearances seem, from the accounts in other pro vincial papers, to have been observed nearly simultaneously in almost every part of the kingdom. They were seen near London.] MRS. PATCHWORK !—One Brighton Paper after calling on the other to stand forth and be examined under the designation of Mr 3. Patchwork, proceeds thus politely to de scribe the Contemporary Journal :—" Of all the Papers that were ever put together ; of all the trash that was ever raked up from the purlieus of literature ; of all the nonsense that was ever written, collected, or stolen, from books and other sources of information ; of all that was ever jumbled, garbled, dove-tailed, spliced, or manufactured in the shape and under the denomination of a newspaper, the is the most despi- cable specimen. On Saturday an infant fell from the third story of a house in Chesnut-row, Woolwich, but was caught in its de scent by a man employed in the yard beneath. The mother fainted on witnessing the accident. Between six and seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Henry Hankins, aged 33 years, a labourer employed in dig ging out the foundation of one of the hotels intended to bo built at the Euston-square terminus of the London and Bir mingham Railroad, was in the act of unpinning a wall, when an immense mass of earth, weighing at least a ton and a half, suddenly slipped, and buried him underneath its ponderous weight. He was dug out as quickly as possible by his fellow workmen, and was found to be crushed and bruised in a very dreadful manner. He was carried to the University College Hospital, and is not expected to survive. On the evening of last Thursday week, tke family of John Price, Esq., of Plas Cadnant, Anglesey, were sud denly plunged into the most poignant distress. William Bul keley Price, Esq., the youngest son (a young gentleman of the most amiable disposition, and quick parts, of the age of 25), went in a small skiff for a few hours' excursion on the Menai, attended by William Jones, house carpenter. About six o'clock, their frail bark upset all at once, in consequence of one of them leaving his seat ; and the unfortunate deceased sank to rise no more. Having taken a ride in the morning, he had not taken off his spurs, which made him more easily get entangled in the sea tang, from which he was with diffi culty extricated. Had it been otherwise, he had a weakness in the spine, which rendered his being able to save himself by swimming highly improbable. Though he was brought to the surface after the lapse of a very short period, life was quite ex tinct. William Jones was saved by clinging to the side of the skiff, and the prompt assistance of the numerous boatmen in attendance. To his credit, it should be added, that, while his own life was being saved, he entreated his preservers "to look for his young master first, and let him take his chance." The accident happened close to the moorings of the Zephyr steam packet, Capt. Goff, who, with the passengers, rendered every assistance in their power. —Carnarvon Herald. At Union-Hall on Wednesday no fewer than three women, all of them the wives of respectable tradesmen, were severally charged with being drunk in the streets, and unable to take care of themselves. Two were fined the usual penalty and discharged ; the third was held to bail for causing a dis turbance. An inquest was held on Wed iesday in the Kings!aud. road on the body of a girl aged fifteen, named Collard, a silk weaver, who was found drowned in the Regent's Canal. The inquiry excited great interest, as it was rumoured that the girl had destroyed herself in consequence of having been spoken to by her uncle, with whom she lived, relative to some improper conduct between her and a youth named Chamberlain, a fellow apprentice. This young man was examined at Worship-street on Tuesday, and remanded, on a charge of having indecently assaulted the girl. The evidence of two surgeons, however, who had made a post mortem examination of the body, nega tived this charge. After a long investigation the Jury re turned a verdict of " Found drowned." DISCOVERY OF TIIE REMAINS OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, BEHEADED AT S•LISI3URT.—A correspon dent of the Salisbury Journal has furnished that Paper with a most interesting account of the recent discovery of the muti lated remains of the celebrated Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who was beheaded in that city in 1483. History records that Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, the " cou sin of Buckingham" of Shakspeare's immortal page. having failed in his plan of insurrection against Richard 111., took refuge in the house of his servant Bannister, near Shrews bury, that he was "by that wretch betrayed" into the hands of the King, then at Salisbury, and suffered death at that city without form of trial, according to the summary method of that age, by decollation and amputation of the right srm. Tradition assigns the court yard of the Blue Boar Inn as the scene of this bloody tragedy. During the alterations and improvements which are still in progress at the Saracen's Head Inn ( which, there can be no doubt, formed part of the premises originally attached to the Blue Boar), it became ne cessary to remove the brick flooring of one of the rooms, and dig to some depth. In the course of this operation, about eight inches below the surface of the soil they came to a human skeleton. The place here indicated can only be a few yards, possibly feet, from the very spot where Buckingham suf fered decapitation. The remains so discovered were evidently those of a human being, and the skeleton was complete, save that it wanted the head and right arm. The first impression on the mind of the landlord, Mr. Shucker, was, that the re mains so discovered were those of some travelling pedlar who had been murdered in the house, and for secrecy buried on the spot. The absence of the arm, it seems, suggested the idea that such might possibly have been the vocation of the deceased, and they accounted for the non-appearance of the head by sui pt,sing that it had been cut off by the murderers, en finding that the grave that they had excavated was too small to conta'n the body. With this impression the land lord himself took up one of the ribs, and measuring it by his own, averred that the deceased must have been of large di mensions. The spinal column appeared completely imbedded in the clay ; and on handling or taking up some of the de tached vertebrae they caumbled into dust ia their hands. As may be supposed, the whole remains were in a like friable corr'ition ; and acting on the impression that what was once the most high and puissant Prince Henry of Buckingham was no other than a murdered pedlar, they actually, with their " dirty shovels," knocked about his " noble dust," and in a few minutes compounded it with the clay " whereto 'twas kin."—Salopian Journal. On Thursday night, between the hours of eleven and twe l ve o'clock, as Levy, the house-officer of the Garrick Theatre, and Lewisson, the box-keeper, were standing at the entrance, they observed a more than ordinary light in one of the upper rooms of the house of Mr. Moss, a looking-glass manufacturer o pposite, Their suspicions being aroused, they instantly rushed into the house, and on proceeding to the room whence they had seen the light, they found the table-cover on fire, and th e fl a mes rapidly approaching a bed in which were the two j e faut children of Mr. Moss. They instantly removed the children from their perilous situation, and by the most prompt and preesewertby exertions extinguished the fire before much d ama ge was done, and long before the arrival of the engines which were brought to the spot. The fire, which had been so l.rovidentially checked, had been occasioned by a maid servant going to sleep while reading a novel. CRIMINAL COURT-THURSDAY. OLD COURT. Alt akinford, aged 14 years, was indicted for maliciously shooting at anotiier bey named Scot, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor and several other boys ;vetn tossing the pri soner by gibing him and throwing stones at him_ 1-1 e told them that unless they went away he would shoot them. Tuey persevered in their conduct, and lie turned round and fired a pistol, loaded with shot, at them. The shot struck the prose moor on the head. The Jury found the prisoner guilty of assault, and recom mended him to mercy. Mr. Don: E suggested that the ends of justice would be an swered if the boy was well flogged by his father, Mr. Justice VAUGHAN— Yes ; but how are we to know that the father will do so? Mr. DOANE—Oh, I will give an assurance on the subject. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN —Thrn the better way will be to post pone the sen once until the flogging has been given.—( A lau4b.) John Sandford. aged 43, who ssas described as an architect and surveyor, was indicted for forging a certain deal relative to leasehold property. The circumstances of the ease involved so many contradictions that the jury interrupted Sir F. Pollock (who was specially retained for the prisoner) and returned a verdict of Not Guilty. NEW COURT. Sarah Shaw, George Mitson, and Sarah Mitson, his wife were indicted for stealing a purse containing thirty sovereigns a silver watch and gold appendages, a diamond pin, a mourning ring, and twenty-one duplicates, the propetty of a young widow of the name of Ann Robinson, from her person. The prosecutrix has recently lost her husband. On the 19th of August she left home w►th 301. in her pocket, to take to her late husband's stock-broker. She had the other ar ticles named in her pocket. She went by way of Shoreditch, near where she met Shaw, whom she had known before, when she condoled with her on her loss. She went to a public-house and had half a quartern of gin, when witness told her that she had pledged her furniture, and was going to take the proceeds to the stock-broker, and that she was going to pledge her watch and jewellery. Shaw enticed her to go to her house in Holton, to have tea, and they were joined by the other prison ers. The man said you are perfectly safe, we are all brothers and sisters. Shaw went out s and fetched some gin in a pot, which she took into another -room, and then brought her a glass. She refused to drink it at first ; but Shaw and the male prisoner forced it upon her. l3efore she had drunk it all she fell down deprived of her senses. When she recovered she found herself lying on the floor, her dress disordered and the bottom of her pockets cut off, and all her money and pro perty gone. All the prisoners had abandoned her. Evidence was called to prove that soon after the robbery Shaw and the male prisoner rode away in a cab, and were seen at a distance with the property. They were appre hended with the greatest:part of the property in their pos session. The Jury acquitted Sarah Mitson, and found her husband and Shaw Guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT said that the sentence of the Court was that they be severally transported for_ the term of ten years. When Mr. Sergeant ARAsiN took his seat on the bench at half-past five o'clock, the Grand Jury brought in several bills of indictment for felonies and misdemee.nors, and among them was one containing several yards of wide parchment against Henry Freeman and Jasper Cole, connected with a weekly publication called the Town, for libels, which were set out in the body of the bill at length. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The following letter, requesting information on a sub ject of considerable importance—the question of the liabi lity or non-liability of ships belonging to the port of Lon don to be assessed for poor rates, was received yesterday by the LORD MAYOR:— " May it please your Lordship—ln respectfully tendering your Lordship my most grateful thanks for the public notice your Lordship was pleased to take of my letter of the 4th instant, soliciting the favour of being informed through your Lordship, as Conservator of the port of London, whether there is any privilege or law in existence which exempts the ships and vessels belonging to the said port from being as sessed to the poor rate ? The writer respectfully begs leave to submit to your Lordship, that from your Lordship's silence on the point, he has been led to conclude that there is no pri vilege or law of exemption from assessment to the poor rate peculiar to the port of London with respect to the ships and vessels, the homes of which are in some one or other of the seve ral parishes constituting the said port. Consequently they come under the general law of the realm, and are liable to be as sessed to the poor rate, and from whatever cause the rating of ships belonging to the port of London has fallen into desue tude, the legislature, in making provision for the relief of the poor never intended that the inhabitants of the several pa rishes situate on the banks of the River should be subjected to the expense of providing for the widows and children thrown upon them through the casualties which are of almost daily occurrence on the. river (as in the case of the late d.plorable accident on board the steam-packet Victoria), while the owners of such property contribute nothing in respect thereof towards the maintenance of the poor, and the writer enter tains far too high an opinion of your Lordship's innate love of justice to suppose for a moment that your Lordship could consent to have the industrious classes (of the City of Bristol for instance) subjected to the payment of the poor-rate out of their hard earnings, while the opulent owners of the Great Western steam-ship, realising profits to the amount of 6,0001. and upwards in less than six weeks, are wholly exempt from such rate. Yet this is actually the case if the said ship is not assessed for the relief of the poor. " That the three trials heard in the Court of King's Bench (as cited from Shaw's Parish Officer's Guide in my letter of the 4th inst. ) have decided the question, there can be no doubt, and the enclosed copy of a letter, received from a most respectable shipowner, whose sentiments on the subject do so much honour to the head and heart of the inditer, that the writer feels a pleasure in submitting it to your Lordship's at tention, as of itself an all-sufficient proof of the liability of ships and vessels to be assessed to the poor-rate ; and Sir John Campbell, iu his speech in Parliament, on the Church rate question, distinctly stated that ships were liable to the Church-rate. Trusting the above, through your Lordship's kindness, will draw the attention of the parochial authorities to this important subject, the writer has the honour to remain with the greatest respect, your Lordship's most obedient hum ble servant, ROBERT WOOLLETT, Sen., " 113, High-street, Woolwich, Sept. 13, 1838. " To the Lord Mayor of London." In this letter the following was enclosed : " Wells, Norfolk, Sept. 9, 1836. " Sir,—l have yours of the Bth now before me, and in an swer as to the liability of vessels paying poor-rates, it is cer tain for the last century all at this port have paid such. " I am a shipowner myself, and about fire years since I con sidered the rate in this port required alteration ; not that I thought it could be altogether removed, nor did I wish it should. I drew up several cases (or my solicitor did for me.) and laid them before Mr. Adolphus, whom I consider a very able Counsellor. He states in direct terms, that all vessels producing a profit (or supposed to do so) at the port the y belonged to are certainly liable to pay poor-rates ; but should they be employed in seeking or in any foreign trade, they are only liable in each quarter they trade to their homes. You are aware that in any case of a vessel's owners not residing in the port for which she is registered, she is not liable to the poor-rate; fishing-boats of twenty tons pay the rate. I am one of those who wish to pay all liabilities, but to the utmost to oppose imFsition.—Excuse the haste of " Yours, respectfully, " R. PARKER." The Lord 11ATOR observed, with respect to the reference of a question of such a nature to him, that the best way of arriving at the most correct conclusion would be by ap plication to a Court of Law. He thought it, however, neces sary to state that any new impost upon commerce would be attended with serious consequences, and that the port dues of London, in comparison with those of Liverpool, were c,nsi dered a crying evil. For some time the inhabitants of that part of Thames street, in the immediate neighbourhood of London-bridge, have been much annoyed, particularly on Sundays, by gangs of fellows who are employed by the pr: pr'etors of the rival steamers which ply Iron Landon to Westminster. The steamers ply from wharfs contiguous to ea-la other, and these persons to whom we allude are in the habit not only of qu,s reling with each other about passengers, but pull and haul fe males into their boats. They begin to tau:. for passengers, even on London-bridge, and it is often the case that a lady who intends to go by one boat is carried off by main force, and popped into another, which does not land passengers at the same side of the water to which she intended to ,go. Edward Bourne, a touter at one of these wharfs, was charged by Mr. Wright, the proprietor of the other, with having committed an assault. The LORD MAYCR wished to establish a preventative, in this casa without inflicting a punishment, and he should, therefore, content himself with requiring the defendant to enter into his own sureties to keep the peace. Mr. Wright's solicitor expressed his willingness to enter into an accommodation, by which the touting system would be altogether dune away with. The LORD MAYOR declared that if some regulation; were not at once made to prevent the repetition of offence, the Ccurt of Aldermen would most Cartainly take the whole mat ter into their hands. B 01V- S RI ET. A young man named Gabriel Ilards, a fruit salesman in James-street, Covent-garden, and who holds the situation of one of her Majesty's Yeoman of the Guards, was yesterday placed at the bar on a charge of creating a riot and assaulting his wife. Evidence having been gone into, Mr. MissuuLt, would call upon the defendant to put in bail, him,elf in 100/., and two sureties in 501. each, to kerp the peace for the next six months. The defendant was removed in custody. lIA7'7'ON- GARDEN. A lad, sixteen years of age, was charged with having leen found starving and destitute in the streets yesterday morning, at an early hour. lie had no friends, and some time ago he was turned out of St. Luke's workhouse by the overseers. Mr. ROGERi—Why were you turned out ? Prisoner— Because the overseers bad an cverhaul. Mr. RooEns inquired what was meant by an ot'erh,tul ? Prisoner—They called us all together, and overhauled us, when they turned me and several bo; s out, telling us that v,o were strong enough to get our own living, and I have bte3 about the streets ever since, starving , and unable to get any work. Inspector Penny, of G division, said that the priscnter wa; itarvit, , , and had scarce a rag to cover him, when he was brought to the station-house, when he gave him some food- The prisoner (crying) was willing to work if he could ge it to do. Mr. llor;Eas ordered him a trifle from the poor-box , 256 directed the ofNer to take him to the workhouse. MARYLEBOIVE. Yesterday a respectable-hvotting, middle-aged man, narge4 James Baldock, residing' at No. 42, Ernest-street, liege'"lf! Pa,k, and who described himself` as a surgeon, was char g ea before Mr. Shutt with having wilfully thrust the point of his umbrella into the eye of a youth, of the .t:ame of Charles Gar.. ton. living at No. 304, Regent-street. The complainant, whose eye appeared dreadfully inflamed. about six o'clock on Tuesday evening last, was P assing. through the Regent's Park, when he observed the defendant coming towards lion with an umbrella under his lett that No sooner had he come within reach of compl ainant, he suddenly seized the umbrella in his right hand and th."u' t the end of it forward with much violence into his left eye. the same time exclaiming, " Why the devil don't you mincif and having said this he passed on without offering the least assistance. Complainant shrieked out with agony, being unable to open I,?‘ eye, and several persons soon collected, from saint of whom he learned where the defendant lived, an d that hn was in the constant habit of amusing himself a 5 he es 0 0 ' walked along by endeavouring to thrust people ey with his umbrela, which he always carried with him. col: plainant felt his eye so painful that he rya!! compelled to 3 1 3 P 7 , to a surgeon, who, after dressing it, informed him that if had extremely careful he would lose the use of his eight. lie h since called at defendant's house, but he had refused to sea him, sending word by the servant that he was breqV ast A in f:, and could not be disturbed. He was therefore comp..'lle" take out a warrant against him. by at James White, a vendor of fruit , who happene d to pass 'J. , he the time, knew the defendant well, and that he was in t t _ habit of indulging in the strange propensity of thrusting tiff point of his umbrella into the face of any perso n he 11010 meet, and for this reason he was universally shunned by th°s: who were aware of this peculiar penchant. A man w ho sweeP the crossing in the Park had in a particular manner attracted the•defenthnt's enmity, and he (witness) had frequently seed him make a stab at his face in the same way he had act e . towards the complainant, but happily without doing the P°°- fellow any injury, who now , in co mmon with witness and otilers. who were aware of the defendant's vicious habits, g ot out c' his way when they saw him coming along. On the afternoot! in question he watched the defendant making his way throuP, several ladies, who interrupted his progress, which so ir ritated him that he made several thrusts at them with his umbrella to clear his way, when, shortly afterwards, he met the O n. plainant, who was walking steadily along in a contrary dire!: tion, when he deliberately seized his um brella, and thrust...l.' into the poor fellow's eye, as he had already stated, and wi_.%l ness had no hesitation in saying that it was done wilfully, was not from any accident: - Daniel Dutch, an officer of this establishment, bore witness to the eccentric conduct of the defendant that morailf; when he called at his residence to execute the warrant. _a sent down word by the servant that he was at breakfast, 8,. Wit: that be would not stir till he had finished his meal. much difficoy, and after considerable delay, he prevailed upon him to came forward and meet the charge. The defendan4 in answer to the charge , s aid that the bob was running along ea: essly, and that it was quite by ac °ll e' Id, that the umbrella came in contact with his face. He s e xtrenl e e Y , notwithstanding it was quite occidental, have felt het[ [ happy in proffering his professiontii assistance t o the su if he had requested it. Mr. SHUTT was of opinion, from the evidence, that it t s a si t wilful and wanton act, and consequently fined the defere-e? five pounds, and in addition ordered him to find b ail. t° - the peace. an d The defendant almost immediately paid the racT e l' w ith having entered into the required security, left the otO° his umbrella under his arm. UNION-HALL ' A pawnbroker, named Wiles, in the York-road, Kenilinr ton, was fined 40s. for omitting to give the right a ddress 7 1 n- 0 ; duplicate of a woman who had pledged an article at ilish9rokor There was another information against the sam e pawn— d iu for not having the rates of profit which he rece ived plsee ter, a conspicuous part of his shop. This information, YK, was dismissed, owing to the informality in the wording n' WORSHIP-STREET. A man of the name of Serle was placed at the bar, charge& with stabbing Thomas Davy. • r The complainant, about a week ago, was with his s iste Rose-streot, Spitalfields, where the prisoner, who 9 to rounded by a crowd, was brandishing a knife, threaterung_h stab any one who came near him. In forci n g his way thro the crowd, he made a thrust at the c om p lainant's sister. complainant interfered, when be recei ved a cut across danger' in his arm, from the effects of which he was i n some dangeo He was at length overpowered by police constable BroViot 54. The prisoner was committed for trial. R. URQUHART'S SPIRIT OW THE EAS.-°_, M This is a work of no ordinary inte rest and abilit y . The resyrue, will peruse with delight the animate d sketch which Mr. `-": quhart has given of his travels through European Turk el ,' which formed the groundwork of his masterly disquisition on the manners and institutions of the East, and their influence : r the moral and political condition of the people. Th eo whic . h the author has formed are the result of ten yell" ' mitting labour in the acquisition of the necessary informatio for judging of the countries which he describes. During i t r b e ; i f period, unoccupied with any other pursuit, his time wag es nt 11 - devoted to investigation in detail, or to general stui icoss4 terally bearing on the laws, history, commerce, politica o f diplomatic position of the East, and more particulargtea Turkey. The result is a body of information peculiarlY 'b a t e to arrest the attention of every contemplative mind. donian Mercury. a rti er °Pi u " :: . re; The melancholy wreck of the Forfarshire ste men , will lead, we trust, to a very desirable result—the of officers at the various ports from which steam t heir o f &- for the purpose of constantly examining the state o. ast i e , gives. At London, Liverpool, Hull , Bristol, Nscion_a, Glasgow, Edinburgh, &c., such officers ought to be s tat ; ere It is useless to cavil about the expense—ivhat can it b a e;_ t „ o f it ten times the estimate, in comparison with the s " those who travel in steam vessels ? So many of these:rof dents have recently occurred, that it has become indispe necessary to adopt some means for their prevention. deep Constitutional. 1 N 51 stated in ounces and clii e j The L weightA LADIES' EgivSen' byß cEomSparTirannGwiifOth L the D weia C ht H of 41. 0vereig g, , being more easily re ferred to h The quality into articles of this description. of the gold is warranted equal to any that is squ i. Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring Pattern ir , cl O , £ s. d. Same weight as 3 sovs. 4 4 0 Same weight as 6 sovs• 1 ,, ; o Ditto as 4 sovs. 55 0 Ditto as 7 Ws. 0„ 0 Ditto as 5 sovs. 66 0 Ditto 9 as 8 soil. rover The following Patterns are One Guinea dearer than the g o :--- but cannot be made lighter than the weight of Six SoveresiFfl_.,o, The Cage Pattern. The Chinese P tree,' The Ring and Bar Pattern. I The Victoria Pat' 0 THE NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHES.. £7 1 The price in gold cases, with vertical movements ...... .• Ditto, with well-finished horizontal movement, in d o uble- 0 bottomed engine-turned case, jewelled, silver dial , 9 warranted ................................................. ••• T. COX SAVORY'S. ~ on doo• Working Silversmith and Je weller, 47, Cornhill , ' cle i (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street.) _olooeo N.B. The Horizontal Construction is particularly r" ,--- for its superior accuracy. __------- - - - .--..-.. _____ G ( m ) ( n ich th il e ;l, l , T. C. 18th lost., at Syd ß e i nli ß7 am llS ,the ße e wife of the • Oc 0 is , On the 17th inst., at Bexley Heath , th e wife of in h sq., of a son. oicti E On the daughter' 16th inst., Mrs. John Durn'ord , of a r ' • of d]cd the following day. On the 16th insi., in Bishopsgate-street, the lady 0- IN . 0 0 0 Beale, surgeon, of a daughter. ' - of $ vrh ( i ) e n ii : u h r e viv l p 7 i tl b l u i t n a st. sbo a r t t N i i ia 'r e t . lrord, 'Mrs. Arbuth" et ' r , Irs• M il l° On the 19th inst., in Lower Brook-Orect, the Hon. , 3 111. Duncotnhc, of a son. the I-lon• On the 17th ins'., at the Rectory , Chelmsford,lfoo• Carcw St.. John Mildmay, of a daughter. Ott the 12th inst., at the Dowager Lady Arunclars, t t it : court Mrs. Isicave, of a daughter. on On the 18th int., at the Banquetting 'Lus Rau'llii-ter. Palace, the lady of Colonel Sir James Reynett, of a daug e if° ri ill A if ti I P; I). fo b' On the 18th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-51'1°1;o Barnett, Esq., to Emily Anne, fourth daughter of Üb e ., . „0, Stratton, Esq., of Farthinglioe Lodge, Northampton' ii Il e ilip r„ of On the 18th inst., at Western-super-Mere, Good°oshter E,g., Bombay Army, to Clarissa Susan, Your'g est hire. on , C. A. Partridge, Esq., of Cotham Lodge, Glouccsters , go bios ta On the 19th inst., at Streatham, Richard Radfor est L ute Esq., surgeon, Camberwell, to Lydia Mary Ann, el' ' nder.6ol, of David Drew, Esq., of Balbara. ,„ ti. , On the 18th inst., at St. Pancras Chu rch, JosePhci afford, P. sq., of D.-mglitey-street, to Emily, relict of Henry of o f 10' „, ' E of Huntingdon, and daughter of the Bev. Jones PY°' Bolton. 4t On the 17th inst., Mr. lj Jol l t E n 1) 1 Milroy, 0"1 . ' Itidit. Company's • . se: vice, aged 74. ..,., „.her, On the 17th inst., at 'Stamford hill, John ir e r' aged t 4. D ufa° ~ Josef ) On the 13th inst.,l' 1 at .e.,rave-terrace, Pimlico, gm ., Esq., Navy Agent, ' agcd 63. ,e, late of On the 17th inst C b ' T aYl''''° ~ at am enved, Thomas of the aged 85. o lder On the 18th • in • inst., Guilford-street, Hannah , vv lo late John Cowley, Eq. . Mal' of On the 17th inst., at Marlborough-square, Chelsea, ("looer On the 18th inst. ( .I ,f Air. Samuel Shpherd, of Chelsea Hospital, el dest is(o, Ci it n ,:ar t , l a e ;el l .in 6 , th vr in et s t t.,at Nottinglham Mr E. Halliday, Esq., ,a l t at K e e o n f isi t n he to W n 'a: M o . f . li j 'c a e m ' es flo t AN l.' e e, 1111 0 °Il freLl i a Felloo.o7e, 01 On the 7th inst., Richard ' Foster, Etq 13 f Canal-gr '., ner . gree ° ' ,€, Step On the 1 Ith inst., %t Montgomery Blouse' , /.. C. Roc, • On - '''' 65. the lith inst. at Eriekley Hall, Yorkshire, the , itiebaru Rudston 1) 1 1 .- 1' ,ea( , aget /J. ' l % fr. On the 15th - inst , at Kirkdale, near Liverpool, ~.., of L-r er . ...,,,ston, formerly of Manchester, abed 71. f; 0 . q; '' ' \Valiant On the 16th inst., at Stoke Nevrinrton , -e'" e! pringfield, near Chelmsford. ..-------rf 10 J " a rn a e g s e d 40. , e d 65. London : Printed and Published by MI/111)0 V O , . ii the dot3;4 112. Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 1:2, Stra n "' 1 j of Bliddlevx.—Friday, September 21, 1 18313.